Cui Han couldn't help but be silent, he didn't want to say this in such detail, without it, it was too miserable, he was afraid that Jiang Huadong would not be able to accept it, but looking at Jiang Huadong's situation, it was impossible to hide this matter, he would always know.

"On May 1, the Qin army launched the Xishui Battle and the Tankou Battle at the same time, the Xishui Campaign, our army was annihilated 40,000 and 60,000 captured, and only 50,000 deserters evaded the Qin army's soldiers and fled back; In the Battle of Tankou Pass, our army was completely annihilated, and the number of casualties and prisoners is unknown for the time being! ”

Cui Han honestly told Jiang Huadong the results of the battle, but he didn't say that the two passes didn't hold up for half a day, otherwise, it would undoubtedly make these two bad news even worse, and Jiang Huadong died on the spot.

However, Cui Han overestimated Jiang Huadong's ability to bear, and after learning that there were heavy casualties at the two major passes on the front line, Jiang Huadong couldn't breathe out of his throat, and soon his body became weak, and he sat on the dragon chair, his eyes were still open, but his eyes were no longer bright, and his pupils were collapsing!

"Your Majesty!"

Cui Han and Wang Gonggong exclaimed in unison, and hurriedly ran to Jiang Huadong's side.

Cui Han reached out and touched Jiang Huadong's neck to see how the pulse was, and after touching it for a while, Cui Han's mouth opened slightly, and he knelt on his knees with a 'plop', and then bowed his head and said nothing.

Seeing this, the prince also reached out and touched it.

"Ahh

When he felt the pulse, the prince took a few steps back in fright, and then knelt on the ground like Cui Han.

Jiang Huadong, the emperor of Great Qi, died!

"Your Majesty is dead!"

"Your Majesty is dead!"

A terrible shout resounded throughout the palace, for a while, the palace was lit up, all the palace guards, eunuchs, palace maids, harem concubines all got up and ran to the library, and the quiet palace instantly became lively.

When more and more people learned that Jiang Huadong had died, there were bursts of mourning throughout the palace.

Early the next morning, the Linzi Emperor hung filial piety in front of the upper and lower houses, everyone wore linen and filial piety, and the palace was even more sad and happy.

The emperor died, and the great-grandson of the emperor who inherited the throne did not come back, and Cui Han, as the prime minister, should be the supervisor of the country, but Cui Han offended many ministers in the court, and they opposed Cui Han's imprisonment of the country, and pushed a respected old minister to supervise the country.

Faced with this situation, Cui Han was naturally unconvinced, but in order to protect the overall situation, he made the first compromise in his life.

After Cui Han compromised, those ministers did not dare to go too far, and began to cooperate with Cui Han, and Cui Han mentioned that the Qi court issued a court order to the Meiyueguan camp and the Xianningguan camp, ordering the 100,000 troops of the Meiyueguan camp to gallop north to aid Yumen County and resist the Ningta army that entered the pass.

The 100,000 troops of the Xianning Pass camp were saddened and galloped to the aid of the Yong'an Army and resisted the Qin army of Nanguan who entered the pass.

Meiyue Pass and Xianning Pass are both Yueqi Passes, each with 100,000 elite soldiers, some people may ask, the Yue Dynasty is so weak, why do you put so many soldiers and horses on the Yueqi border, on the contrary, there are only 50,000 soldiers and horses at Tankou Pass on the Qinqi border, what is the reason?

This truth is very complicated, involving the internal strife of the Qi Dynasty, and it is difficult to explain it clearly in a short time.

The Qi court not only issued an order to Meiyue Pass and Xianning Pass, but also issued a court order to the Lanfengkou camp and the Guifengkou camp, ordering all the troops at the two passes to immediately return to the Linzi Imperial Capital to standby.

Lanfengkou and Guifengkou are both Qi Zhongshan Passes, with 50,000 troops each at each pass, and some people may have asked again, to defend a Zhongshan country, you need to get 100,000 troops at two passes?

Of course, the Qi Dynasty was not used to defend against Zhongshan, but to prevent Han and Zhao from taking advantage of Zhongshan to attack Qi, so they had been stationed at the two major passes of Qi and Zhongshan for a long time.

Before the Qin army did not attack Qi, the regular strength of Daqi had 600,000, including 50,000 at Tankou Pass, 150,000 at Xishui Pass, 100,000 at Meiyue Pass, 100,000 at Xianning Pass, 50,000 each at Lanfengkou and Guifengkou, and 100,000 at Jingshi Daying!

Although the army of Daqi has 600,000 troops, the army lacks training and its combat effectiveness is not high, but even so, it is also an elite soldier in the eyes of the nations, because the standard of elite soldiers in the eyes of the nations is very low, as long as the soldier has a good weapon in his hand and wears a good chain mail, he is considered an elite soldier.

If the Zhao Dynasty is as rich as the Great Qi, let alone 500,000 elite soldiers, one million can be squeezed out, and the combat effectiveness is one level higher than that of the Qi army, but unfortunately, although the Zhao Dynasty is not poor, it is not rich, and the annual financial income can be used to exhaust.

Speaking of this, the Great Zhao Dynasty also deserves it, if the Zhao Dynasty did not cut down Han and Yan, did not participate in the Qin and Jin Dynasty, the current Zhao Dynasty's national strength must be very strong, you know, Han Yan and Zhao in the first battle, the Zhao army lost more than 400,000 elite soldiers, Qin, Jin and Zhao in the first battle, the 400,000 army was almost wiped out, and many fierce generals were put in before and after.

If these strengths are not lost, the Zhao Dynasty must be a super-first-class power with a million armor, if there is no Qin Dynasty, I am afraid that it will replace the Wei Dynasty as the overlord of Kyushu, it will be the Zhao Dynasty!

But there are no ifs!

Ten days!

In the eighteenth year of the Holy Qin, May 25th!

Great Zhao Dynasty, Beichang County, Beichang City!

Beichang City is very close to Changmen, only 400 miles away, Beichang City is the county seat of Beichang County, the population is 80,000 huge, there are 10,000 households in the city, Beichang as the county seat, the city is three zhang high, there are moats on all sides, and the standing garrison is 5,000.

At this time, outside the moat of the north gate of Beichang City, there was a hideous giant artillery lined up, there were about seven hundred giant artillery, and there were fifty black-armored soldiers behind each giant artillery, and the seven hundred artillery pieces were lined up in seven rows, with wide banner coverage, and the entire North City Gate was within the range of artillery.

This is the artillery position of the Qin army, behind the artillery position, the 350,000 Qin troops are lined up in a neat military column, and every soldier is looking at the high city wall in front of them, this is their goal, they must take Beichang today and settle in Beichang!

Every soldier is very much looking forward to the scene of the bombardment of Beichang, it is really a bit unenjoyable when the bombardment of Changmen, and I want to watch it again, in order to see this fireworks show, the 350,000 army and the 35 artillery battalions directly under it spent 13 days trekking through mountains and rivers, and finally came to Beichang outside the city.

As for why the four-hundred-mile journey took thirteen days, it was naturally the artillery that dragged its feet, and the roads in the Zhao realm were not as broad and flat as the roads in the Qin realm, so the Qin army could only travel thirty or forty miles a day, and it rained the day before yesterday, and the roads were slippery, so the army had to rest in place for half a day.

At the front of the main array of the 350,000 Qin army, Luo Xing, the general of the town army, and Aluke Ge stood proudly on their horses, looking at the north gate of Beichang City with their eyes.

PS: "Brothers, give me an all-in sprint and go towards unification!" ”